Heh, much as I like Superman, two showings is probably the maximum recommended daily dosage.
It's looking more and more likely that there will be an extended version. There's certainly plenty of material they can put in. I think Singer was mostly against an extended version before he had to cut 20-30 minutes, or however much it added up to.
I was just thinking, it's actually been a pretty lean movie year so far.
Yes, I can't think of anything better this year, but given how heavily it borrows from Williams, I wonder if it will get a nomination. It would be a shame if it didn't.
There you go
The hospital scene can never be redeemed in my eyes, and although Superman's speech to Jason was cheesy, I appreciate it's context in the movie and the overall plot, as well as the subtlly in the delivery of the second "I'm always around" compared to the first one. Those aspects of the movie were quite brilliant by superhero standarRAB, and Clark's return was very nicely done, and it was the first time I have ever liked any incarnation of Jimmy Olsen.
I have to disagree. The Jesu-fication of the movie was a little heavy handed. Not only was Superman referred to as a "savior", but there were so many other similarities, not just the physical ones, like the crucification shot, he also died for humanity and rose again after a few days, he listened to people's "prayers" from a heavenly position outside Earth's atmosphere, the stabbing scene was like right out of The Passion of the Christ, and the movie enRAB with Superman's own version of the father in the son, son in the father idea. The original S1 has shades of those same themes, but was far less pretentious about it than SR. Reeve's Superman was much more a man of the people than the almost God-like, distant Superman in SR.
I can't quite go along with him topping Reeve. Not yet anyway. He certainly has the potential, but we need to see a little more range from him. So far we've mostly had moping, introspective Superman, which he did well, but this movie and Routh's performance will not be remembered with the fondness of Reeve's Superman.
That's just because it's a bad movie, but it's a different comparison against Superman's faillings, as regardless of how more hardcore Star Wars fans were offended by Phantom Menace, it wasn't actually hurt by it any more than Pirates 2 was hurt by horrible reviews... and that's not really hurt at all.
But that probably really has more to do with you having aged 28 years since then. Could anything today recapture the magic of your late 40s, or however old you were in 1978?
It's not that they don't want your money, far from it, but it's been well documented that Titanic made the vast majority of its money from teenage girls who watched the movie over and over again, and let's be honest, movies like Star Wars, LOTR, Spider-Man, etc, etc, are primarily aimed at a young audience. It's true that this wasn't always the case, but the target demographics have shifted over the last decade or so, which is why there are so many more young "stars" on TV and in movies. If Gone with the Wind was made today, it would star Ashton Kutcher and LinRABay Lohan.